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Run Nengo models on Intel's Loihi chip
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Improve speed of test suite #193

Closed drasmuss closed 5 years ago

drasmuss commented 5 years ago

Two improvements to test time. First, use pytest-xdist to run tests in parallel. This has the most significant impact on the hardware tests, as we can run jobs on different boards simultaneously. Second, uses TravisCI's caching functionality to reduce the amount of time we spend setting up the environment for each job. This will be slower for a cache miss, but should hopefully improve things overall (depends on how often the environment changes); we should keep an eye on it to make sure that we aren't getting too many cache misses.

hunse commented 5 years ago

Sweet! I just glanced at it, so this isn't an official review, but it looks good. Also seems fairly straightforward compared to what I feared, particularly when you started talking about having to patch nxsdk.

tbekolay commented 5 years ago

The now-merged #204 parallelized the hardware tests, but I don't believe the caching was included in that PR, so I'm leaving this open for now.

drasmuss commented 5 years ago

https://github.com/nengo/nengo-loihi/pull/219 added the caching, so this has all been done now